SCALE by Aerospace Valley

In the fight against climate change, space provides today data to monitor climate. Satellites allow scientists to observe the planet continuously and provide a range of geo-referenced environmental data at different scales (global, regional, local).

Space data is now a source of business for many companies. Since the establishment of the Copernicus program, which makes Earth Observation data available free of charge, a lot of private players have been able to transform the raw data produced by satellites into decision-making services useful for many application sectors such as the ecological transition.

Satellites have the advantage of providing recurring, global and time-monitored data that can be hybridized with complementary data (in-situ, IoT, socio-economic, …). This data fusion is facilitated by AI and Big Data technologies that make it possible to massively process this data and develop a multitude of operational services to support the climate action of public and private decision-makers at different stages: diagnosis, monitoring or assessment.

The areas of services are huge: resources (water, energy) management, urban planning, coastline, air quality, GHG emissions, natural risks (flood, drought, fire, storm, …), climate change, light pollution, infrastructures monitoring etc. and concern both the public sector (development and monitoring of public policies).